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Definition of Hair-shirted
1. Adjective. Self-sacrificing or austere.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hair-shirted
Literary usage of Hair-shirted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"Lady Bird 1 make a short shrift- Here's a hair-shirted Palmer hard by ; And here's
Lawyer Earwig to draw up your will, . And we'll witness it, ..."
2. The Crimson Fist by O. H. Neland (1913)
"... the hair- shirted hermit who roved Europe raving for the Crusade in which
himself took part as leader, contemporaneously with Gottschalk. ..."
3. Garden Walks with the Poets by Caroline Matilda Kirkland (1852)
"Lady Bird ! make a short shrift— Here's a hair-shirted Palmer hard by; And here's
Lawyer Earwig to draw up your will, And we'll witness it, Death—Mott and ..."
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